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FIFTY DRAWINGS

AUBREY BEARDSLEY

EDITION

500 copies of this volume, all on the same paper (which was specially manu-
factured), have been printed for sale in the United States of America and these

Fifty Drawings

AUBREY BEARDSLEY

Selected from the Collection

OWNED BY

MR. H. S. NICHOLS

Formerly of j Soho Square and 62 a Piccadilly , London

PUBLISHED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

NEW YORK

H. S. NICHOLS

MCMXX

All rights of reproduction are 'reserved

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

CONTENTS

1. Salome

2. Toilette of a Courtezan

3. Remorse

4. A Messalina

5. The Black Cape

6. The Jilted Pierrot

7. Peacock and Rising Sun

8. The Inquisitive Nun

9. Pan and the Wood-Nymphs

10. Cover Design for a Journal of Fashion

11. Portrait of a Lady

12. Lady combing her Hair

13. Portrait of Oscar Wilde

14. Masked Danseuse

15. The Twins

16. Design for “The Savoy” (Lady in Garden with Faun)

17. Design for a Book-cover (Lady in Cape with high Collar)

18. Portrait of Aubrey Beardsley (in Profile)

CONTENTS

19.

After the Bath

20.

Lady in Rose Pattern Dress

21.

Portrait of J. McNeill Whistler

22.

Caricature Portrait of J. McNeill Whistler

23-

Lady and Powder-puff

24.

Design for a Theatre Poster (Sir Henry Irving

as Becket)

25-

The Crinoline Skirt

26.

Design for a Book-cover (Key Handles)

27.

A Nude Woman poised on a Wave arranging her

Hair

28.

Belinda’s Toilet

29.

Satyr carrying Woman

30.

The Finishing Touch

3i-

The Dreamer

32.

Cover Design (Peacock and Fountain)

33-

The Pestilence

34-

An Artist’s Model

35-

Oriental Dancer

36.

Design for a Theatre Poster (Dancer in Spot-light)

37-

My Hostess

Lady with Doves

39-

The Black Domino

40.

Old Age and Youth

41-

A Masquerader

CONTENTS

42. Womanly Beauty

43. Dancing to Pan’s Pipes

44. Design for an en tete

45. Erda

46. The Satyr-Coiffeur and the Lady

47. Blowing Bubbles

48. Design for a Book-cover (Male and Female 'Torsos)

49. Design for a Church Window

50. Portrait of Aubrey Beardsley (at Work)

Salome

(Surrounded by border of peacocks)

Hitherto unpublished

Size of the original drawing 12^4 inches by 17^4 inches

Toilette of a Courtezan

(Semi-nude female arranging ilowers in her hair)
Hitherto unpublished

Size of the original drawing 41 •_> inches by 71 2 inches

Remorse

(Man walking over buried skeleton)
Hitherto unpublished

Size of the original drawing 7 inches by 8) 2 inches

AuBHE'f BEARDSLEY

A Messalina

(Woman masked; guttered candle behind her at right)
Hitherto unpublished

Size of the original drawing (yy% inches by 12)2 inches

The Black Cape
(From “Salome”)

Hitherto unpublished

Size of the original drawing g}s± inches by 13^4 inches

The Jilted Pierrot

(Another masked Pierrot with Lady at right)
Hitherto unpublished

Size of the original drawing 13 Jg inches by 10 inches

- •

Peacock and Rising Sun
Hitherto unpublished

Size of the original drawing 6^4 inches by 97g inches

The Inquisitive Nun
Hitherto unpublished

Size of the original drawing 6)4 inches by io1^ inches

Lopyng lit, 1920, by H. S. Nichols

Pan and the Wood-Nymphs
Hitherto unpublished

Size of the original drawing 10% inches by 141 2 inches

Cover Design for a Journal of Fashion
(Lady wearing richly embroidered dolman)
Hitherto unpublished

Size of the original drawing 6J § inches by 9 inches

Aubrey Beardsley

1 1

Portrait of a Lady

(Landscape with trees at left; curtain with cord and tassle at right)

Ilitherlo unpublished.

Size of the original drawing y}£ inches by 8) 2 inches

Lady combing her Hair

(Mirror held in left hand; right elbow resting on dressing-table)

Hitherto unpublished

Size of the original drawing 6}/± inches by 9^4 inches

Oscar Wilde

fFull length portrait of Oscar Wilde in frock-coat)
Hitherto unpublished

Size of the original drawing 8 inches by iojg inches

Masked Danseuse

(Nude female dancing, surrounded by elaborate ornamental borde

Hitherto unpublished

Size of the original drawing 3*2 inches by n inches

The Twins

(Two young girls with fur caps and muffs)
Hitherto i unpublished

Size of the original drawing 9^4 inches by I234 inches

1 6

Design for “The Savoy”

(Lady in Garden with Faun)

(Intended for “The Savoy” but was not used)
Hitherto unpublished

Size of the original drawing 9 inches by 12^4 inches

Design for a Book-cover
(Lady in cape with high collar)

Hitherto unpublished

Size of the original drawing 7)^ inches by gjg inches

Aubrey Beardsley
(A portrait of himself in profile)

Hitherto unpublished

Size of the original drawing 8 inches by 12J 2 inches

After the Bath

(Young girl, partly nude, her hair wet)
Hitherto unpublished

Size of the original drawing 7 inches by 97g inches

Lady in Rose Pattern Dress
(She is smelling at a ilower)

Hitherto unpublished

Size of the original drawing 6 inches by 8 inches

J. McNeill Whistler
(Bust portrait of J. McNeill Whistler)

H ith erto unpu kl ish ed

Size of the original drawing 5)^ inches by 5^4 inches

J. McNeill Whistler

(Caricature portrait of J. McNeill Whistler)
Hitherto unpublished

Size of the original drawing 5 1 2 inches by 10" g inches

Lady and Powder-puff
(Lady holding hand-mirror in her left hand)
Hitherto unpublished

Size of the original drawing 6} g inches by 4% inches

Design for a 'Theatre Poster
(Sir Henry Irving as Becket)

Hitherto unpublished

Size of the original drawing 12 inches by 15^4 inches

’

The Crinoline Skirt
Hitherto unpublished

Size of the original drawing 4^8 inches by 6^4 inches

Design for a Book-cover
(Key handles)

Hitherto unpublished

Size of the original drawing inches by 8^4 inches

nude Woman poised on a Wave arranging her Hair
Hitherto unpublished

Size of the original drawing 4% inches by 9 inches

Copyrig hi, IQ20, by H. S. Nichols

Belinda’s Toilet

(For “The Rape of the Lock,” but was not used)
Hitherto unpublished

Size of the original drawing 8} 2 inches by 12 inches

Satyr carrying Woman

(The woman is nude and is holding a tray with wine, fruit, etc.)

Hitherto unpublished

Size of the original drawing 4^4 inches by 9 inches

The Finishing Touch

(Lady looking in mirror of dressing-table and using powder-puff)

Hitherto unpublished

Size of the original drawing 31 2 inches by 5)^4 inches

The Dreamer

(Nude female asleep; poised above her breasts is grinning face of Satyr)

Hitherto unpublished

Size of the original drawing 6^4 inches by 5^3 inches

Cover Design
(Peacock and Fountain)

Hitherto unpublished

Size of the original drawing 9 1 d inches by 1232 inches

The Pestilence

Hitherto unpublished

Size of the original drawing 6l/± inches by 83^ inches

An Artist’s Model
(Semi-nude female reclining)

Hitherto unpublished

Size of the original drawing 9^4 inches by 7)^ inches

Oriental Dancer

(Semi-nude female with dagger and black domino, dancing)
Hitherto unpublished

Size of the original drawing io)^ inches by 14 inches

3 6

Design ior a Theatre Poster
(Veiled nude dancer in the spot-light)
Hitherto unpublished

Size of the original drawing inches by 97g inches

AugRF'f BEAR DSLt-*

/ '

My Hostess

(Caricature of a well-known type of London Jewess)
Iliiherto unpublished

Size of the original drawing io1^ inches by 15^4 inches

Lady with Doves

(Surrounded by elaborate emblematic border)
Hitherto unpublished

Size of the original drawing 9^ inches by 13 inches

The Black Domino

(Lady wearing wide-brimmed hat and black domino)
Hitherto unpublished

Size of the original drawing 7 inches by io1^ inches

Old Age and Youth
Hitherto unpublished

Size of the original drawing 5^ inches by 7J g inches

■

A Masquerader

(Dancer, in ballet-skirt, with domino in left hand)
Hitherto unpublished

Size of the original drawing 7 inches by 11% inches

Womanly Beauty
(A study in lead pencil)

Hitherto unpublished

Size of the original drawing 5!^ inches by 13 inches

' /

NATO

V0E&

Dancing to Pan’s pipes

(Nude female with domino in her right hand dancing)
Hitherto unpublished

Size of the original drawing 5 inches by 6Jg inches

Design for an en tete
(He ads of Satyr and Woman)

Hitherto unpublished

Size of the original drawing 9 inches by 51 2 inches

Erda

(To illustrate “Das Rheingold”)

Hitherto unpublished

Size of the original drawing \\ § inches by 5^3 inches

■

The Satyr-Coiffeur and the Lady
Hitherto unpublished

Size of the original drawing 9 J g inches by 15^4 inches

Blowing Bubbles
(Nude female blowing bubbles)

Hitherto unpublished

Size of the origin il drawing 6)4 inches by 8 y% inches

A Book-cover Design
(Alale and Female Torsos)

(For the volumes of “The Fin de Siecle Library,” but was not used)

Hitherto unpublished

Size of the original drawing 5^4 inches by inches

' f

Design for a Church Window
(Angel with Lilies and Dove descending)

Hitherto unpublished

Size of the original drawing 12)2 inches by 15% inches

Aubrey Beardsley
(A portrait of himself at work)

Hitherto unpublished

Size of the original drawing 6]4 inches by 6 inches

H. S. NICHOLS
PUBLISHER

17 EAST 3 3RD STREET
NEW YORK CITY
N. Y.

(established 1886)

GETTY CENTER LIBRARY

3 3125 00593 3318

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